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Quotes About Admiration

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
~ Orson Scott Card
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
~ Orson Scott Card
I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.
~ Orson Scott Card
Sólo hay una cosa que hará que dejen de odiarte. Y esa cosa es ser tan bueno en todo lo que hagas que no puedan ignorarte. Les he dicho que eres el mejor. ¡Mejor que lo seas!
~ Orson Scott Card
The stone loves you. Don't you see it? Hasn't it shown you its love all your life?
~ Orson Scott Card
She certainly didn't have the ability to share her ability with the envious ones—she could only share the products of her ability. They gladly took those, and then resented her for being able to produce them. Most human beings, she concluded long ago, love to worship from afar people with extraordinary ability, but prefer to have their friends be genial incompetents. And, of course, most of them get their preference.
~ Orson Scott Card
I saw you magnificent
~ Orson Scott Card
Masters never are content with mere respect from their servants.
~ Orson Scott Card
You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
~ Orson Welles
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
~ Oscar Wild
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
~ Oscar Wilde
I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
~ Oscar Wilde
ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
~ Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
~ Oscar Wilde
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
~ Oscar Wilde
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
~ Oscar Wilde
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
~ Oscar Wilde
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
~ Oscar Wilde
if he fell, well, he fell—but if he survived he would become a monument, not carved in stone or encased in brass, but one of those New York monuments that made you say: Can you believe it? With an expletive. There would always be an expletive in a New York sentence. Even from a judge. Soderberg was not fond of bad language, but he knew its value at the right time. A man on a tightrope, a hundred and ten stories in the air, can you possibly fucking believe it?
~ Colum McCann
When you see a person of worth, concentrate upon becoming their equal.
~ Confucius
Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not.
~ Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
~ Cornelia Funke